Something Sticky

‘Something Sticky’ is a series of lighting sculptures that shine light on various symbols of queer pasts. Through joining various different material elements, each piece attempts to write the narrative of queer legends, and question the cavernous holes left in the telling of time.
Working with various symbols used by queer communities throughout history, the series works to evidence lost pasts. They question the hegemonies that gave shape to our heteronormative histories that have long erased the queer experience. ‘Something Sticky’ takes a red-hot-poker to the classical, typical and conservative, forging queer shapes into places they should have always been.

Leo Maher is a British-born artist and designer currently based between Athens and the Netherlands. His work involves gathering research from both past and present material cultures, exploring the narratives they are tethered to, and subsequently reformatting archives into new physical pieces. The works frequently aim to challenge normative ideas surrounding our material realities and the narratives they represent. Maher often endeavors to treat each tool or material with equal regard, recognizing the delicate mutuality and harmony that emerges as narratives, materials, and techniques converge to create conglomerate objects.